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With just a little more than two weeks remaining before the deadline, 36 states and territories have opted into the nationwide network for first responders that will be built by AT&T (NYSE: T).
But uncertainty remains for the Dallas telecom, which is contracted by the U.S. government’s FirstNet Authority for the job: 19 states and territories have yet to announce their choice, while one recently became the first to opt-out.
Last week, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced his state would…

Robinhood, founded in 2013 by two Stanford students who thought it would be cool to offer commission-free stock trades, has discovered how lucrative it can be to court more experienced investors.
The Palo Alto-based startup debuted commission-free options trading Wednesday, following the introduction of margin lending last year.
Robinhood’s new options trading service follows last month’s debut of Robinhood for Web, which allows investors to use Robinhood on desktop computers, offers analysts’…

Netflix is developing its own security products in response to unique risks to its business.
The Los Gatos-based streaming service has released 15 cybersecurity products during the last three years, according to The Information. The company has released the products as open-source, which means other companies can use them for their own purposes without a licensing fee.
Netflix currently has a team of about 80 security employees, per the report. Its security products include software that analyzes…

Toward the mid-1990s, America Online (by then going by its nickname, AOL) was the company through which most Americans accessed the internet. As many as half of the CD-ROMs produced at the time bore the near-ubiquitous AOL logo, offering early computer users the opportunity to surf the internet for a flat fee – at the time, $19.99 for unlimited monthly access.
With nearly half of U.S.-based internet traffic flowing through AOL, the stage was set for a social evolution of sorts that shifted our…

Acronis is pledging a $10 million investment in Scottsdale with its fourth research and development center and up to 40 high-tech workers to fill the facility within the next three years.
Burlington, Massachusetts-based Acronis International GmbH, a hybrid cloud data protection company, opened its first Arizona sales office in Scottsdale’s Quad project in October with 30 employees. The company plans to hire another 30 for the sales office.
The new research and development center, to be built…

Gov. Larry Hogan says a jobs program he implemented is off to such a good start he wants to expand it.
Hogan's program, the More Jobs For Marylanders Act, became law this year after it was passed by the General Assembly. The program provides tax credits to manufacturing companies that create jobs in certain jurisdictions, including Baltimore City and Baltimore County.
In the first few months, Hogan said nearly 70 companies have sent letters of intent to the Department of Commerce to participate.…

The crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter is still one of the top services for people with ideas to collect the funding needed to bring it to life — and Orlando certainly is filled with a lot of creative energy.
Here, we found the top seven Kickstarter campaigns in Orlando funded this year and they include a pretty wide range of projects from dog toys that rip on purpose to an encyclopedia of some of the hottest toys in the '80s and '90s.
Here's a link below to each campaign for more information,…

The technology industry's explosion in the Bay Area is tantamount to a new Gold Rush, with billions of dollars in venture capital flowing through the region, attracting scores of startups popping up to take advantage of that funding.
Among those have been some of the largest and most influential new companies in recent history — and many of them have turned their young founders and executives into billionaires nearly overnight.
We compiled a list of the wealthiest Bay Area tech figures under…

Now, Addison Davis, who is the new project manager of the Rowan IDEA Center, and some other Rowan County, university and chamber leaders want to help ensure that the city or county become the home for local people who want to start or grow a business.

ManTech International Corp. CEO George Pedersen will hand over day-to-day leadership of the Herndon government contractor to Kevin Phillips, the current president who will become chief executive Jan. 1.
ManTech (NASDAQ: MANT) revealed its leadership transition plan Wednesday, with Pedersen becoming executive chairman and continuing to guide the company’s overall strategy, mergers and acquisitions (that alone could keep him plenty busy) and other corporate activity.
Phillips will focus on company…

San Francisco startup Skillz – which has seen rocketship growth by carving out a position atop the mobile esports world – has raised another $25 million in funding from investors, including major international telecom operators, to fuel its global expansion.
Skillz, founded in 2012, has created a platform for more than 12 million gamers to compete in mobile tournaments and contests and spectate on their devices. Last year the company earned $54.2 million and has seen more than 1,200 percent…

Tesla’s nascent electric trucking project got a big boost this week from PepsiCo, which placed a preorder for 100 Tesla Semis, Reuters reports.
More than a dozen companies have publicly said they intend to buy the new Tesla Semi when it goes into production in 2019. By one count, the company has already presold 267 semi trucks, which will start at roughly $150,000 for the base model.
PepsiCo operates a fleet of 10,000 big rigs nationwide, and has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions…

San Jose-based Western Digital Corp. is dropping its lawsuits against Toshiba, clearing the way for the Japanese tech giant to sell its flash memory business to a consortium of companies led by Bain Capital, with backing from Apple and Dell Technologies.
The announcement late last night ends months of bitter and unusually public negotiations over Toshiba’s flash memory division, which sold for around $18 billion in late September.
The agreement returns Western Digital’s relationship with Toshiba…

Laura Ipsen is the new president and CEO of Reston education software company Ellucian.
The company, which provides software and services to institutions of higher education, made the announcement Tuesday. Ipsen steps into the role immediately.
She most recently worked as a general manager and senior vice president for Oracle Corp.’s cloud marketing division. She currently serves on the board of agriculture company Monsanto and is a previous board chair of the District-based Information Technology…